A Loaf Of Bread Made In The First Century AD, Which Was Discovered At Pompeii, Preserved For Centuries

How well do you see color?

I’m cry I scored 60, I feel blind

Put the dumbest injury you’ve ever gotten in the tags

*God hesitates before sliding it towards himself* Well when you put it that way...

*slides God two dollars* I want a girlfriend

Zanavykija, Lithuania

a roman toddler’s footprint in red clay tile 🥺 (ancient Vasio Vocontiorum)

AHHH

I'M COVERED IN GLITTER AT A FOOTBALL GAME. MISTAKES WERE MADE.

Wedding Dress

Lucile

1908

Fashion Museum Bath Twitter

every now and then i have to think of the roman family from two thousand years ago that buried their little daughter in a boy's athletic-themed sarcophagus and i weep a little because that's the softest declaration of love i can possibly imagine

this is from a real diary by a 13-year-old girl in 1870. teenage girls are awesome and they’ve always been that way.

Lakota elders helped a white man preserve their language. Then he tried to sell it back to them.

“No matter how it was collected, where it was collected, when it was collected, our language belongs to us," said Ray Taken Alive, a Lakota teacher.

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this is vile

STANDING ROCK INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. — Ray Taken Alive had been fighting for this moment for two years: At his urging, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council was about to take the rare and severe step of banishing a nonprofit organization from the tribe’s land.

The Lakota Language Consortium had promised to preserve the tribe’s native language and had spent years gathering recordings of elders, including Taken Alive’s grandmother, to create a new, standardized Lakota dictionary and textbooks.

But when Taken Alive, 35, asked for copies, he was shocked to learn that the consortium, run by a white man, had copyrighted the language materials, which were based on generations of Lakota tradition. The traditional knowledge gathered from the tribe was now being sold back to it in the form of textbooks. 

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